I remember this case. I remember seeing it on the news as it was happening. It was disgusting then and it's disgusting now that the doctor & the hospital are trying to defend their actions. They put this girl & her family through hell. They should consider themselves lucky if all they have to do is pay a bunch of money to them, which they should. They should be paying for her to live in the lap of luxury for the rest of her life, even though that will never make up for what they did to her. If it were up to me, they would all be going to jail.
How presumptive of this doctor to think she knows more than the girl's parents do, particularly when they already had her in another medical program at a different hospital. This doctor should lose her license and, perhaps, the hospital should just be shut down. I don't think they can be trusted. I certainly wouldn't trust them. If I went to see a doctor, and then I found out they had done something like this, I would never be able to go back and see them again and trust anything they said. And the same goes for the hospital where she was held captive. I would never be able to go back to that hospital for fear that they would take me hostage or something.
I wonder how much money the doctor & the hospital got from the insurance company for holding her hostage for nine months. I think if the girl prevails, and I hope she does, then the insurance company should sue to get all of their money back. And I'm normally not on the side of the insurance companies.
No doctor or hospital would ever do anything like this again though if they thought they were in jeopardy of getting in trouble with an insurance company and that those payments were going to stop.